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DeepSeek AI: Why the $1.5 Trillion Market Crash Is the Best Thing That Could Happen to You

James
3 min readJan 28, 2025
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You walk into a dealership to buy a $100,000 Mercedes. The sales rep hands you the keys and says, “It’s yours for $1,000”

Sounds absurd, right?

Now imagine if the entire trillion-dollar AI industry just got that same shock. That’s exactly what happened last week.

In just 24 hours, global markets bled $1.5 trillion. Nvidia’s shares alone tanked by $600 billion.

This isn’t just a market dip. It’s a paradigm shift that’s flipping the AI world on its head.

And the culprit? A Chinese dragon named DeepSeek.

Why AI Just Had Its “Dot-Com Bubble” Moment

If you were around during the dot-com crash of 2000, you know how quickly hype can turn into chaos. Back then, companies were throwing billions at internet infrastructure without understanding what people actually needed.

The result? A trillion-dollar wipeout and companies like Webvan disappearing overnight.

Now it’s happening again — only faster.

For the last five years, we’ve been told that building world-class AI requires:

  • Millions of dollars
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